Hot shower loss in memory with very high blood pressure

[TT79]

I was hoping someone could help. My dad was taking a shower one evening. Nothing out of the norm, got out dried off and walked into the dinning room. The next thing my mother and I know is dad is asking me where he was, what was he doing, and what day was it. I grabbed him and rushed to the ER, he has very high blood pressure, around 200 over something. The hospital was amazed he was not in a coma so they gave him some meds which brought his blood pressure down. We was hoping the spike in blood pressure was the cause of everything but it's not. He couldn't remember the last 6 months of his life, we just turned 61 the weekend before but he couldn't remember it. He has gained back some of his memory of those 6 months but not all. Since, he has never gained full memory they declared it as a TIA, which I think is something they do if they don't know. This happen about 3 years ago now but he said he was watching TV and saw a program about people getting really hot like showers or out in the sun could cause them to have something, in which caused short term memory loss and blood pressure spikes. Can anyone tell me what this something is or have heard anything about hot showers causing this? It has been a year or so since he has seen the program but I am drawing at straws.

[NTB]

sorry, but I don't know.

But as far as memory loss, it's not an all or nothing thing, in general. It would probably depend on what part of the brain was most affected.

Has his kidney function been checked since that episode?

[TT79]

It could be I will mention it to my dad but does it normally only make memory loss of certain periods? I thought it would not come back normally at all and just won't affect the 6 months before it happened. He started remembering things while on the way to the hospital, it was about an hour drive. When we got there it was still 200 something but they said it was probably higher when the incident happened, do you know if that would mean it's not. Also, I thought you get hot meaning you feel drained and very very hot, which he did not. This might be the cause but I don't think it was my dad seen on TV. Thank you for the information.

[NTB]

are you referring perhaps to hyperthermia? Hyperthemia can cause increase in intracranial BP, which can cause brain damage.

> We was hoping the spike in blood pressure was the cause of everything but it's not.

the BP spike could have caused brain damage which remains after the BP has gone back down.